Today, Xiaoming, who loves to watch movies, would like to recommend to you a movie that I hate the most, The Representative Work of Japanese Director Tetsuya Nakajima, "The Life of the Rejected Matsuko". The film has been hanging on the Douban Movie TOP 250 list for many years, and nearly 620,000 people have scored 8.9 points.
This film is very wonderful, not as light and restrained as usual in Japanese films, but unusually warm and public. The graphics are gorgeous like fairy tales, and the soundtrack is cute.
Before making movies, Tetsuya Nakajima had been making commercial films for many years, which allowed him to develop a strong acumen, especially visual control. The cartoon-style shooting method, coupled with Disney-style song and dance elements, makes this film have a strong comedic color.
But this movie, which looks like candy, is one of the films I hate the most.
Because when you walk into this gorgeous world, you will find that the back of the fairy tale is full of desolation. When you look closely at those smiling faces, you will see that behind the smiles are all crying.
"The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts" is like a piece of arsenic stained with honey, which is sweet and wonderful on the surface, but in fact hides a deep despair.
Tetsuya Nakajima's lens is like a delicate knife, showing the audience the process of people being "delayed" by life. Today Xiaoming will take you to see how a woman is killed by life.
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Before the age of 23, the god of doom did not touch pine nuts. Her life was smooth, well educated, working as a music teacher in a middle school, and was very popular with students. But Matsuko looks like a goddess on the surface, but in fact she is a female nerve. Her brain circuits are different from others, and she always can't control doing ridiculous things.
At the age of 23, Matsuko took the students on a spring tour, and when she returned to the hotel, she was called by the director of instruction to attend an emergency meeting.
A convenience store near the hotel was stolen, and after analysis, everyone believed that Aaron, a student of Matsuko, stole the money.
The director of the teaching asks Matsuko to talk to Aaron, but no matter how much Matsuko persuades him, Aaron refuses to admit that he stole.
In fact, even if Aaron plays a trick, Matsuko only needs to hand him over to the director of education and dispose of it by the school, and this matter has nothing to do with her. However, because she was afraid that her superiors would scold her for not doing a good job, Matsuko decided to pay back Aaron out of her own pocket, but she could not empty her pockets enough to make up the amount that Aaron stole.
Matsuko's head was hot and he became a thief. He stole some money from another teacher's wallet and gave it to the shopkeeper. But the shopkeeper did not accept the repayment and insisted that the students who stole the money apologize in person.
According to normal logic, Matsuko should explain the reason for the matter to the owner. But she thought it was too much trouble, and the shopkeeper's fierce attitude made her upset. In a hurry, Matsuko's brain completely short-circuited, and she actually defended Aaron, saying that the money was stolen by herself!
Matsuko didn't do this to protect Aaron, she just wanted to end the trouble quickly so she could go back to the shower.
Matsuko's plan was in vain, and instead of taking a shower, she was forced into the director's bedroom. Because when she knelt down to confess her sins, she happened to be bumped by the teaching director who passed by, and the director said that he would let go of the pine nuts on the condition that he would look at her breasts.
Pine nuts were sexually assaulted.
She thought that by making an exchange, she would be safe, and it turned out that the man's mouth was deceiving the ghost. After returning to the school, the director told the principal about Matsuko's crime.
The indefensible Pine Nut went to Aaron and knelt before him and begged him to confess to the headmaster about stealing the money. Aaron pretended to agree to help Matsuko clarify, but in front of everyone, he bit back, saying that he did not steal money, and that Matsuko wanted him to face the crime.
Because of Aaron's words, Matsuko's reputation was completely ruined, she lost her job, and her boyfriend who had just established a relationship also left her.
Faceless, Matsuko decides to run away from home. Before leaving, she did what she had always wanted to do, killing her own sister.
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In Matsuko's memory, she has always been a superfluous person. The father gave all the love and pity to the frail little daughter, while Matsuko could only be a "loving bystander", watching his father spoil his sister as a princess.
Treating his sister BaiYibaishun's father was not even willing to give Matsuko a smiley face, and everyone felt that the sister who had been bedridden for many years was the most pitiful, but he did not know that in the long-term snub and neglect, Matsuko's heart had long been crippled.
She became extremely prone to self-doubt and was afraid to express her thoughts, and this personality also laid hidden dangers for Matsuko's later life.
At the age of 7, Matsuko finally got a little fatherly love. Once, Matsuko accompanied her father to the hospital to visit her sister, and on the way back, her father took her to the mall to eat dessert and went to the playground on the roof of the mall.
This little bit of residue-like pity made Matsuko flattered, almost happy enough to float up, while his father on the side was still an ice cube face. In order to make her father happy, Matsuko imitated the joker to make a grimace, and her father smiled at her for the first time.
For Matsuko, her father's smile is the biggest reward. Since then, she has often made her father laugh, which has become the only connection between father and daughter. But gradually, as she grimaced, her father's smile became less and less. That funny expression could not change her father's attention, but it became a sequelae of Matsuko, and as long as she was in a hurry, she would make an uncontrollable grimace.
Matsuko tried her best to attract her father's attention, but in exchange for it was only indifference.
At home, she was not even qualified to express happiness.
After Matsuko fell in love, she shared the joy of her first love with her sister, but was severely reprimanded by her father, on the grounds that her sister was already very pitiful, and Matsuko should not stimulate her anymore.
To Matsuko, her sister is more like an enemy, stealing everything that should have belonged to her. The raging hatred exploded at the moment when Matsuko decided to run away from home, and she rushed up and choked her sister's neck. Fortunately, the maid of the family heard the noise and came to check it out, so that the sister was not strangled.
The broken Pine Nuts howled and rushed out of the house, vowing never to return.
On a solitary day, she met a down-and-out writer. Writers are poor, drunk and abusive, and dependent on pine nuts to feed themselves. It is such a scumbag, but Matsuko regards him as the light of life.
In order to raise a boyfriend, Matsuko cheekily found her brother and wanted some money to support herself. The brother gave Matsuko some money and completely severed ties with her.
It turned out that three months after Matsuko left home, her father died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and the family was unwilling to forgive this rebellious daughter.
Matsuko became homeless, but she felt that as long as her boyfriend was still with her, it was enough.
But even this illusory happiness dissipated on a rainy night.
The depressed writer eventually chooses to commit suicide by lying on the track, and Matsuko watches her boyfriend die under the wheel. He didn't even give her a hug, leaving only a last word, "Born to be human, I'm sorry." ”
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Matsuko thought that her life was completely broken, but half a year later, her life hung up on the rainbow.
She became someone else's mistress, and the man who raised her was called Kenfu, a former rival of her boyfriend.
Keno's appearance soothes Matsuko's emotional wounds, but this stolen joy is like an anesthetic, making her life completely stagnant. Keno came to see her every Wednesday, and for Matsuko, the most important thing in her life was to wait for one Wednesday after another.
Slowly, Matsuko is no longer satisfied with the short pleasures, in order to stay with her lover. She quietly went to Jianfu's house to inquire, and after seeing his wife, Matsuko was very happy, and she felt that she could definitely defeat the mediocre woman.
The confident Matsuko thought she could "turn right" soon, but reality gave her a resounding slap.
After learning that Matsuko had gone to find his wife, Keno became angry, and in anger, he told the truth that made Matsuko collapse.
It turned out that he had never loved Matsuko, and was only with her because he was jealous of her dead boyfriend, and wanted to find some compensation in Matsuko to eliminate his inner inferiority feeling.
Keno gave Matsuko a little breakup fee and left without looking back. Before leaving, he dropped a sentence, "Your body is so sexy." ”
Because of this sentence, Matsuko went to the bath girl, and since Kenfu would not ask for her, it didn't matter to any man.
Pine nuts look sweet and good technology, and soon became the top brand. It wasn't long before her place was replaced by a more tender face.
The bath girls who debuted at the same time as Matsuko resigned and returned to their hometown to open a restaurant, and if Matsuko also washed her hands and went ashore to find another career, she would start a new life.
But once again, she fell into the trap laid by the man.
Matsuko meets a man named Ono, a soft rice man with a slippery voice, but the lonely Matsuko is trapped in his sweet words. Ono tricks Matsuko into taking her to start a business, but secretly takes the money Matsuko gives her to raise her mistress and squanders her savings. After being caught raping, Ono did not feel guilty at all, but showed off to Matsuko with a proud face.
Faced with shameless Ono, Matsuko completely loses her mind. She took the fruit knife and killed him.
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After killing Ono, Matsuko took a car to a remote village where she wanted to jump into the river. Just before she was about to end herself, a man stopped her.
The man's smile warmed Matsuko's heart, and she temporarily abandoned her suicide plan and went drinking with him.
During the small talk, Matsuko learns that his name is XiaoXian, he is a hairdresser, and his wife died in a car accident three years ago. Xiao Xian took in the pine nuts, and the two rolled the sheets that night.
Matsuko ushered in the most comfortable time in her life, and the encounter with Xiaoxian was like a dream, in which Matsuko forgot the pain and hurt. She reveled in false warmth and happiness and sang again.
But it was destined to be a song without an ending, and a month later, Matsuko was taken away by the police and sentenced to 8 years in prison for intentional homicide.
Even in prison, Matsuko is still immersed in her dreams, convinced that Xiaoxian will definitely wait for her to return.
After being released from prison, Matsuko immediately went to find Xiaoxian, but the reunion she had fantasized about for 8 years did not materialize. Xiao Xian was married long ago and had a lovely son.
The dream ended dismally, but reality ignited new hopes.
While serving her sentence in prison, Matsuko learned to beautify and hairdress and obtained a technician certificate. After being released from prison, she found a job in a beauty shop. Coincidentally, Matsuko met her former cellmate Xiao Hui there. The two women supported each other and lived a full life.
With a skill, and a good girlfriend to accompany her, if Matsuko works hard and lives steadily, her life will be very good. But she is reluctant, Xiaohui's family is happy, her career is successful, all of this stung Matsuko's heart, and she and her girlfriend went farther and farther.
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The lone pine nuts were swallowed up by loneliness, and she floated like a driftwood in the torrent of life, eager to find a support.
Perhaps by the trick of fate, when Matsuko needed warmth the most, she actually met Aaron, a former student.
After so many years, Aaron finally had the courage to admit to stealing money, and he sincerely apologized to Matsuko and told another secret hidden in his heart.
It turns out that Aaron framed Matsuko not because of hate, but because he fell in love with her. In order to get rid of this abnormal feeling, Aaron destroyed Matsuko.
Aaron's confession makes Matsuko feel confused, she hates him, but his fiery feelings also ignite her cold heart, making her feel the warmth of a long time.
Eventually, Matsuko's sanity succumbs to desire, and she and Aaron fall in love.
Falling in love, Matsuko's life has become a mess, she quit her job at a beauty salon and spent all day hanging out with Aaron.
But her dedication did not exchange for Aaron's cherishing.
After a brief moment of sweetness, Aaron began to beat her and dislike her. In the face of the stormy beating, Matsuko was as willing as he was. She knew that being with Aaron was a moth to the fire, but for the sake of this warmth, she was willing to burn herself even if it was to ignite the fire.
For Matsuko, Aaron is the whole meaning of her life, she tolerates his badness and indulges him in evil. She followed him as a jerk, and even worked as a drinking girl for him, sleeping with different men every day.
Even though Aaron went to jail later, Matsuko didn't give up on him. Every day, she waited for him with anticipation, thinking that when Aaron was released from prison, she would be bitter.
But the 6-year wait only paid for betrayal, and the cowardly Aaron could not bear the affection of Matsuko, and he cut off this relationship in the most cruel way. On the day of his release from prison, he beat Pine Nuts hard and abandoned her in the cold snow.
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The betrayal of her lover shatters Matsuko's last hope for life, and she stops communicating with people, is hostile to everyone, and stays in the rental house all day, anesthetizing herself with alcohol and junk food.
The isolated Matsuko meets the last man of her life, a completely illusory idol star.
The sparkling boy on screen inspires Matsuko's residual enthusiasm, and she spends all her savings chasing stars, writing long letters to her idols without sleep.
After a long period of indulgence in the illusion, Matsuko's spirit has problems, and she begins to hallucinate.
Matsuko went to the hospital to see the doctor and met her former girlfriend Xiaohui. 18 years have not seen, Xiao Hui has become more and more charming under the carving of the years, and has become a strong woman who is alone, but Matsuko has been devastated by suffering beyond recognition.
Xiao Hui wants to talk to Matsuko about her old days and invites her to work in the beauty salon she runs.
If Matsuko walks with Xiaohui, she can get out of the predicament, live a peaceful and stable life, and have her own career. But Matsuko pushed Xiao Hui away and gave up the last chance that fate gave her.
That night, under the influence of the drug, Matsuko once again hallucinated. She saw her sister, the girl she had hated to the bone, who had been dead for many years. In the vision, Matsuko felt the warmth of her family for the first time, and she and her sister were so close that it was as if all the harm had never existed.
The warmth of the illusion inspires Matsuko, and she decides to start her life all over again. Unbeknownst to Matsuko, who is racing toward a better future, she never has a chance to start over.
Angered by a group of passing strangers, Matsuko was beaten to death. In the late spring night, she fell on the empty court and swallowed her last breath, ending a life of absurdity and sadness...
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Looking back on Matsuko's life, the injury of her original family was the beginning of her tragedy, but it was not the reason for her death. Matsuko's biggest mistake is that she never faces reality, refuses to grow up on her own, and is always immersed in the hurt of childhood, unwilling to move forward.
God innocently gave her many opportunities, and every time she encountered a blow, there was a possibility of starting over. But she wants to tie the future to men, expecting others to put happiness in her hands. The happiness that can be obtained is doomed not to last, and a woman who does not cherish herself will not get real love.
In love, Matsuko is a warrior, but in life she is a complete coward. She can charge for love, but she does not want to face the difficulties alone, does not want to solve the mess in life.
She can be desperate for men, but disdainful of running her own business and taking responsibility for her own life.
Do pine nuts really love? She won't. A person who does not even love himself does not understand what love is, and her so-called love is nothing more than an escape, a temporary refuge from the cruelty of reality.
In my eyes, Matsuko's girlfriend Xiaohui is the real brave. She went to prison at a young age, and after she got out of prison, she still plucked up the courage to live and strive with clear goals. After getting married, she met someone unladylike and was forced by her husband to shoot an A-movie. Xiao Hui lived a very painful life, but never gave up the hope of life, and finally relied on her own strength to lay a world, from the original little daughter-in-law who was full of perfection to a domineering big sister.
Compared with Xiao Hui, the life of pine nuts is more like a kind of "parasitism". Constantly attached to others, completely devoid of self, completely living into the shadow of others.
If I had to rate the movie "The Abandoned Pine Nuts," I would be willing to give it a score of 10. Tetsuya Nakajima is really tough, and he presents the saddest life in a sweet and dreamy way, but if I were to rate Matsuko as a person, I would only be able to give zero points. I really hated her, I hated her naivety, her humility, but this disgust was mixed with the pity of hating iron and steel. The most unfortunate thing about a person is not that she failed, but that she could win a different ending if she only went a little further.
But the pine nuts fell only one step away from the light.
Life has never been an amusement park full of pink bubbles, but the most brutal battlefield. Being born as a human being must have a lot of regrets, hurts and deficiencies, and only by constantly crossing obstacles can we achieve happiness.
Every time I watch "The Rejected Pine Nuts", I am very painful, like watching a person little by little be buried alive by unrealistic fantasies. After reading it, I will remind myself that pine nuts are used as a warning. In the complex and tortuous road of life, never rely too much on others, only yourself is the most reliable.
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